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TIL in a survey executed by Harris Interactive, 40% of Americans believed the statement “Dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans” to be true, while another 13% were not sure about it

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xVaZ5 TIL that South Koreans have grown 3 inches taller than their North Koreans counterparts. They are genetically the same and have been living similar lives till divide in the last century. The nutritional difference of only 50/60 years has caused this difference.
LPOZ TIL the first person in history whose name we know is Kushim, an accountant from Mesopotamia who lived around 3200 B.C.
BrNED In China, a three-digit score could dictate your place in society
BJOK TIL when a woman is attracted to a man, she speaks in a higher pitch than she does normally.
PYRAG TIL that a tornado actually starts off in a horizontal position as a rotating mass of air called a wind shear. This is then 'pulled' upright to a vertical position by warm updrafts of air in a thunderstorm. When these spinning columns make contact with the ground a tornado is formed.